Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Sunday, 14 March 2021

What did we know by March 14 2020?

Over the next few months we should expect people in prominent places to tell us things like 'we did all we could', 'nothing else...

Friday, 26 February 2021

What is stylistics? How can it help us interpret a text?

Stylistics is a broad term to cover the 'how' texts are put together. Into this 'bag' we can put any of the following and ot...

How to think about the structure of stories?

Stories have structures. We are used to talking about stories having settings, characters, plots and themes. Slightly to one side of these ...

One way to talk about language - and research it

Anyone reading this will have gone to a dictionary at some time another to 'get the meaning' of a word. It's what we do, and i...

Alfie Bass and Bernard Bresslaw

Two of the most famous Jewish actors when I was a boy were Alfie Bass and Bernard Bresslaw. Every time they came on TV my father would talk...

Journey into Space (in our flat)

My brother and I listened to Journey Into Space on the wireless. Each week our heroes went out into space battled with aliens millions of ...

Purim - a story of lost foods

My father would look away towards a place that wasn't with us or near us and say the names of foods we had never eaten, never seen. ...

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